The lawyers of the family of Cédric Chouviat must file this Friday a request for a new autopsy with the investigating judge. "This is not a request for a second opinion, but a request for confirmation of the first autopsy," explains Me. Arié Alimi, one of the family lawyers as well as Me. William Bourdon . In this kind of sensitive case, it is a question of avoiding possible future challenges of the people who will eventually be charged. "
Died Sunday, January 5, two days after a traffic stop that degenerated quai-Branly in Paris, the body of the 42-year-old father was the subject of an initial autopsy on Monday, January 6. She highlighted "an asphyxial manifestation associated with a hemorrhagic fracture of the two horns of the thyroid cartilage".
VIDEO. Death of Cédric Chouviat: images of his arrest
In other words: asphyxia following a fracture of the larynx with internal bleeding. The autopsy report does not identify the cause of this fracture. Is this the throttling key that the police officers allegedly practiced on Cédric Chouviat?
"There is no longer any doubt that the death of Cédric is directly and exclusively linked to this fracture of the larynx," says Me. Alimi. The autopsy report also describes certain physical characteristics of Cédric Chouviat such as his overweight, his fat level and his cholesterol level, without however suggesting that they may have a link with his death.
Wanting to challenge him for contempt Friday, January 3, around 10:15 am, the four members of a police crew would have engaged in a throttle key on Cédric Chouviat before making a ventral tackle in order to immobilize him. Once on the ground, the delivery man on a scooter still tried to struggle according to the videos filmed by witnesses to the scene before having a cardiac arrest.
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Judicial information is open for manslaughter. The investigation was entrusted to the IGPN, "the police force".